Dai dialoghi di
Jane Eyre
(1997)
di Robert Young
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R. Seeing as you’re a governess, I thought you might explain the concept of
the 28-day week to me.
J. I’m sorry, but things weren’t quite as straightforward as I’d hoped.
R. Really?
J. I had to help my cousins with my aunt’s funeral arrangements.
R. Oh, never mind me! Who am I to worry about?
J. I had thought that you could deduct the money from my salary.
R. You have given me some thought, thank you very much.
J. Yes.
R. Good. I’m sorry about your aunt. Not one single letter did you send me.
Mrs. Fairfax had a letter. Adele and Sophie had a letter. No doubt even Pilot
had a letter. But, oh, not me, that was too much to ask. The whole of
Thornfield was chattering with news of your return. But I, the master of the
house, had to learn from Mrs. Fairfax that you were due home today. I’ve
already been up at the village twice to see if the coach had arrived. I see at
long last I’ve found something to make you laugh. I am so pleased my
distress amuses you.
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J. It is not your distress that amuses me, sir. It is the thought of writing to
Pilot. I can assure you, I did not send Pilot a letter. I’m sorry I did not write
to you, but I thought you would be preoccupied with other things.
R. Oh, did you now?
J. Yes.
A. Miss Eyre!
J. Adele!
A. Miss Eyre!
M.F. Welcome home my dear.
A. I missed you.
M.F. Oh, she did.
A. It’s been boring here without you.
J. Not with all the nice ladies and gentlemen here to entertain you?
A. They all went the day after you’d gone.
R. Jane?
J. Yes?
R. Will you walk with me?
M.F. Oh, she must unpack, she’ll want to get her thing hung up.
R. It’s such a lovely evening.
M.F. Oh, there’s a storm brewing up, I think..
J. Perhaps just a little stroll, then.
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S. I’ll get your bag.
R. It is a beautiful place in autumn.
J. It is a beautiful place all year round.
R. Well, I hope you’ll like Ireland as much.
J. Ireland?
R. Yes, remember I promised to find you a position? Well, I have. It’s with a
Mrs. Dionysus O’Gall of Bitternutt Lodge, Connaught, Ireland. And you start
next week.
J. Next week?! But Ireland is so far away.
R. Oh, you’ll love it Jane. And they say the people are very friendly there.
J. Yes, but... I won’t be able to see...
R. Who?
J. Adele. Mrs. Fairfax...
R. Is that all? Isn’t there anyone else you’ll miss?
J. And you, sir.
R. It’s a shame, because we have been good friends, haven’t we? I mean,
sometimes I feel like I’ve known you all my life. I know this may sound silly,
but when we’re together like this I feel like, well, I’m... sort of attached to
you. It’s as though I’ve got a bit of string somewhere under my left ribs,
about here. And it’s knotted to a similar piece of string situated about there.
Do you think that piece of string will stretch 200 miles across the sea, Jane?
Or do you think we’ll end up bleeding inwardly for each other? No, it’s
ridiculous! You’ll probably forget me as soon as you set foot in Ireland.
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J. I will never forget you as long as I live! Do you think because I am poor
and plain I have no soul? No heart? Well, you are wrong. My time here at
Thornfield has been the happiest of my entire life! It would break my heart to
leave! I’ve talked and laughed and learnt so much by just being here. I’ve
loved every moment of it, from teaching Adele to the wonderful conversations
we’ve had together. I am your equal and you have treated me as such. You
have shown true respect for me. And I have felt for the first time in my entire
life like I’ve belonged. And to think...that I will soon be torn from all this.
That I will never speak with you or see your face again is unbearable to me.
R. Then why go?
J. Because your bride will not want me here.
R. I have no bride.
J. Not yet. But you will have.
R. Yes, you’re right, I will. Come here.
J. Let go of me. I can’t stay here and watch you marry her.
R. You’re absolutely right.
J. A woman you don’t love.
R. That’s correct.
J. A woman who is not worthy of you. It will be less hurtful to go to Ireland,
so please let go of me.
R. What if I don’t want to? What if I want you right here by my side,
forever?
J. I’m afraid your bride stands between us, sir.
R. My bride is here. If you’ll have me, I offer you my heart, my hand in
marriage and a share of all my worldly possessions. Will you marry me, Jane?
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J. Me?
R. Yes.
J. Why?
R. Because I love you. I’ve always loved you, since the first time we met,
that’s why.
J. But how can that be?
R. Don’t torture me, answer me, Jane! Will you be my wife? Will you make
me the happiest man on this earth?
J. I will.
R. Jane, Jane.
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Ah. There you are. Just like one of your tricks, to steal in along with the
twilight. If I dared I'd touch you to see if you were real.
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Come, Jane.
Stay your wandering feet at a friend's threshold.
Thank you, Mr. Rochester, for your great kindness.
I'm strangely glad to get back again.
There's been nothing official yet, but he's ordered jewels from his bank and
he's making preparations to travel to Europe.
Mademoiselle.
He's taken to singing, the operas Miss Ingram favors so well.
We'll hear their announcement soon, I'm sure.
You are to be married.
I see Mrs. Fairfax has intimated my intention to put my neck into the sacred
noose.
Adle should go to school, and I must seek another situation.
Congratulations, sir.
Thornfield is a pleasant place in spring, isn't it?
Yes, sir.
You'll be sorry to part with it.
It's always the way with events in life.
No sooner have you got settled than a voice cries,
"Rise and move on!" I'll find you a new situation, Jane, one I hope that you'll
accept.
I shall be ready when your order to march comes.
Must I really lose a faithful paid subordinate such as yourself?
You must.
We've been good friends, haven't we?
Yes, sir.
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I've a strange feeling with regard to you, as if I had a string somewhere
under my left ribs, tightly knotted to a similar string in you.
And if you were to leave, I'm afraid that cord of communion would snap.
And I've a notion that I'd take to bleeding inwardly.
As for you, you'd forget me.
How?
I have lived a full life here.
I have not been trampled on.
I have not been petrified.
I have not been excluded from every glimpse of what is bright.
I have known you, Mr. Rochester, and it strikes me with anguish to be torn
from you.
Then why must you leave?
Because of your wife!
I have no wife.
But you are to be married.
Jane, you must stay.
And become nothing to you?
Am I a machine without feelings?
Do you think that because I am poor, obscure, plain and little that I am
soulless and heartless?
I have as much soul as you and full as much heart.
And if God had blessed me with beauty and wealth,
I could make it as hard for you to leave me as it is for I to leave you.
I'm not speaking to you through mortal flesh.
It is my spirit that addresses your spirit, as if we'd passed through the grave
and stood at God's feet, equal,
...as we are.
- As we are.
I am a free human being with an independent will, which I now exert to
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leave you.
Then let your will decide your destiny.
I offer you my hand, my heart.
Jane, I ask you to pass through life at my side.
You are my equal and my likeness.
Will you marry me?
Are you mocking me?
Do you doubt me?
Entirely!
Your bride is Miss Ingram.
Miss Ingram?
She is the machine without feelings.
It's you. You rare, unearthly thing.
Poor and obscure as you are, please accept me as your husband.
I must have you for my own.
You wish me to be your wife?
I swear it.
You love me?
I do.
Then, sir, I will marry you.
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